State atlas · filed under WY
Ghost Towns of Wyoming
Wyoming's ghosts are coal and rail: Union Pacific mining towns along the mainline, oil camps of the 1920s, and South Pass gold country — plus homestead hamlets the wind still owns.
430 sites surveyed across Wyoming — 6 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 430 vanished or historical sites in Wyoming — ghost towns, mining camps, townsites, and railroad stops. We chart them a few at a time, as the records can be verified. Every mark on this map is a place that once had a name.
Society Pro
See Wyoming as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919
276 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Wyoming. Pro lays them over today's map with a swipe between then and now, and adds every mine feature, lost place and mineral site the federal record holds for the state.
The full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in Wyoming — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.